Recording live streams for DVR media players

Flash Media Interactive Server 3.5 adds support for DVR media players. When a publisher and server-side DVR application exist, DVR media players let users rewind and pause a live stream and resume playback from the paused location. Flash Media Live Encoder supports this functionality by letting you start and stop recording within the encoding environment.

To enable DVR functionality, record the live stream to the server as it streams. You can start and stop recording from Flash Media Live Encoder in the following ways:

In the GUI:
- Start recording when encoding begins. Select the DVR Auto Record option, next to the Start/Stop encoding buttons. You can pause and restart recording at any time during the session.
- Start recording after encoding begins. Click the Record button during the session to start recording.
On the command line. See Start or stop digital video recording from the command line.

DVR functionality is applicable only when streaming media to Flash Media Interactive Server 3.5. You need to add server-side ActionScript to handle the recording and the correct client-side ActionScript to your media player.

DVR operations are performed on both primary and backup (if applicable) servers and for all streams in multi-bit rate encoding.